“I think that for my children to see other people’s art, it opens their minds up.”

I grew up as a child in a very, very small town, but my parents did a lot with me culturally, like going to museums or plays or orchestras. I think it just really opens up your mind to different parts of learning.

Here, there are just so many museums in the City that you can expose your family to that will allow them to see the world outside, but right around them. This is a very diverse city and it is supposed to be welcoming and open to everybody—even the places that are perceived to be uptight. If you have that feeling of not being welcome, don’t let that limit you from experiencing all that the city has to offer.

My husband and I can take our sons around the world by seeing the City—we try and make the whole thing about learning—going to the museum itself, trying to correlate it to learning about geography or art or music or animals.